A life transformed

September 13, 2018 by Marc Moorghen in Travel, Opinion, Culture

One of the lessons you learn very quickly when you travel is how little you actually know about the world. No matter how much you’ve read or how many travel shows you’ve watched, or how well-traveled you are, life on the road is a humbling reminder of one’s place in relation to the world. We are small specks or blips on the radar of life. Our past doesn’t matter as much as our present or our future. Life has to be lived in the moment, as every problem is new and every decision is significant. Since our return, we have been peppered with questions about our experience, so I thought I should share our key insights.

Coming to America

June 25, 2018 by Marc Moorghen

The end of our travels came to an end with barely a whimper, rather than a bang. We sat in the concourse, drinking coffee and taking it all in, listening to the voices speaking English all around us—a flood of meaning suddenly washing over us and invading our senses. The feeling managed to be both overwhelming and underwhelming at the same time. The sights, sounds and smells of home rolled over us, as we sat there, feeling like aliens arriving on some strange new planet. We were home at last, after 252 days on the road. Our journey, quite literally, took us around the world.

Last Tango

June 21, 2018 by Marc Moorghen in Culture, Opinion, Travel

During our last few weeks in Europe, we decided to make Buenos Aires ‒ known affectionately as BA ‒ in Argentina our last stop abroad, capping eight months of travel. By the time we landed at Ezeiza Airport, we were feeling a rush of emotions; mostly bittersweet intimations that our adventure was coming to an end. Our trip from the airport to our new, temporary home in Recoleta was wistful because we knew it was the last time we would feel that now-familiar jolt of disorientation of being somewhere new; at least for the foreseeable future.